Global Climate, The Unimaginable Impact

Climate change and its devastating impact global warming has its share of skeptics who think that is an exaggerated, over-hyped phenomenon. But climate expert are already unanimous about the gravity of the consequences of global warming.

Much has been said about the culprits of the human made (or is it?) phenomenon; extensive research programmes have been going around for years to predict the impact of climate change, treaties have been signed, conventions have been enforced, voluntary and compulsory mitigation commitments have been made; but the ugly truth is, even if the emission of Green House Gases (GHGs) is reduced to zero percent, climate change is inevitable.

Not all parts of the earth are going to be affected uniformly; four specific regions- the two poles, The African continent, the island and the mega deltas- are going to be the worst victims of climate change. The first thing to do here is to learn to adapt to the yet now unknown consequences of climate change.

Bangladesh, being one of the mega deltas of the world, is already listed as the number on victim of this human made ‘disaster’; and being a nation of resilience and survival, our traditional sciences and technologies have evolved to counter the effect of climate change.